A 1976 history of Pickering, Missouri, notes that everyone there gives directions using a cottonwood tree south of Pickering at the intersection of County Route OO/192nd Street and Missouri Highway 148. The tree was cut down in 1975. The article incorrectly refers to County Route M (the road is in the southern part of the county near Barnard).
Here’s an image of the Church of Christ Scientist. This is based on a 1976 story of the Countryside Christ Church acquiring it on February 4, 1970. It was at Main and Jenkins.
Maryville music school teacher Alma Nash is pictured in 1923 playing drums with the Reiter Sisters’ Orchestra, which was claimed to be the first all-women orchestra at a theatre. In this case, it was Shubert’s newly acquired Missouri Theatre in Kansas City (now known as the Folly Theatre at 12th and Central).
Media coverage of Seattle center Jalen Sundell (Maryville Class of 2018) in the Super Bowl LX in 2026.
The origin of the 102 River is a mistake in the initial map of Missouri’s northern border with Iowa when Missouri became a state in 1821. The northern border was supposed to be exactly 100 miles north of the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers at what became Kansas City. However, surveyors made errors in marking that area, so the border extended 10 miles farther into Iowa (which would have made what is now Clarinda, Iowa, part of Missouri).
Highest The Scouts from left to right: Richard Hale Leet, age 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Leet, started scouting Oct. 12, 1938; Austin K. Mutz, age 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Mutz, stared scouting October 10, 1937; Herbert R. Dieterich, Jr., age 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Dieterich, began scouting May 3, 1937; Robert L. McDougal, age 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McDougal, began scouting Oct. 11, 1937, all members of Troop 75, and Charles Wolfers, age 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolfers, member of scout troop No. 80. Source: Maryville Daily Forum Oct 29, 1940 p1
Officers of Battery C, 128th F. A. Shown above are the officers of the Regimental band and Battery C. 128th F. A. When they left Maryville for active service in 1940. Top picture. left to right: Warrant Officer, Ralph Yehle, Capt. Robert S. Perkins, Major Edward V. Condon, and First Lieutenant Guy R. Shelton. Yehle owned a music store for years. Robert S. Perkins’ wife, Mabel Perkins, was active in the Garden Club, and the park, the St. Francis statue at Lincoln and Main (the old Big Pump location) is named Mabel Perkins Park. Condon owned Condon’s Corner Drug and was a lifelong friend of Harry Truman.
On May 4, 1919, thousands of people in Kansas City greeted troops from the Maryville-based 129th Field Artillery. They paraded up Grand Avenue, passing under a Victory Arch built en route to a celebration at Convention Hall (in the former parking area across from today’s Municipal Auditorium).
First Nodaway County Boy Called in Draft On October 20, 1940. When the national selective service system drafted No. 158 as the first man in each county to be called for the draft, it selected Donald Edward Comer of Ravenwood, who was then employed and 22 years old.
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KXCV helped KNIM get back on the air after an arson fire on January 1, 1977. KNIM AM was back on the air by 12:30 on Jan. 1 and resumed normal programming on January 2.
